Hispanic Heritage Month Facts
What day does Hispanic Heritage Month start on?
September 15th
Which entity in Mexico made a deal with the devil and exchanged his soul for riches?
El Charro Negro
Which Latin American country was the first to gain independence?
Haiti
What is the appropriate term for someone who speaks Spanish or comes from a Spanish speaking country?
Hispanic
Who was the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Sonia Sotomayor
What date does Hispanic Heritage Month end on?
October 15th
True or False: If El Silbon's (Venezuela) whistle sounds far away, that means you're safe?
False; if it sounds far away, you're in danger
Which country in South America was the last country to gain independence in the region?
Suriname
What is the correct term for someone who comes from Latin America (which includes countries in Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean) regardless of language?
Latino/x
Who was the first latina astronaut to travel in space in 1993?
Ellen Ochoa
Which U.S President first established Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What entity in Peru has two different legs (one human leg and one goat leg) that gives him away despite disguising himself as a loved one?
El Chullachaqui
Which South American liberator helped free Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Spanish rule?
Simón Bolívar
True or false: It is possible for someone to identity as both Latinx and Hispanic at the same time.
True
Which Colombian writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982?
Gabriel García Márquez
Which U.S President expanded Hispanic Heritage Week to a full month in 1988?
Ronald Reagan
Which girl in Ecuador stole a corpse's guts and gave them to her motherbecause she spent her money on toys and sweets?
María Angula
Which European country coined the name "Latin America"?
France
What is the correct term to use for an American of Mexican descent or origin?
Chicano
Who was the famous Puerto Rican baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and helped provide humanitarian aid to the ones who needed it?
Roberto Clemente
What year did the Federal Census first included "Hispanic" as an ethnicity category?
1980
What was the name of the ghost girl that kept visiting two Uruguayans students every night at midnight?
La Gemela
Which three Latin American countries used to be empires after becoming independent?
Brazil, Haiti, and Mexico
What is the term that is used to describe a person of Puerto Rican descent who was born and raised in New York?
Nuyorican
What was the name of the neo-expressionist artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent who created the piece "Irony of Negro Policeman"?
Jean-Michel Basquiat